Here
is an amazing bit of technology that you would never see in
person, as you would NEVER be alone in the room. It is ALWAYS VERY
CROWDED and of course you can't see Michelangelo's artwork close
up as you can here. This is especially spectacular if you have a
large high-definition screen!

PRESS
DOWN ON YOUR LEFT MOUSE BUTTON...MOVE IT AROUND AND SEE WHAT
HAPPENS.

TO
VIEW EVERY PART OF THE MICHELANGELO'S MASTERPIECE, JUST CLICK AND
DRAG YOUR ARROW IN THE DIRECTION YOU WISH TO
SEE.

In the
lower left, click on the plus (+) to move closer, on the minus (-)
to move away. Oh and the choir music is thrown in free.

MOVE
THE ARROW AND YOU WILL SEE EVERY PART OF THE
CHAPEL.

This
virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel is incredible. Apparently done
by Villanova at the request of the Vatican
.

You are never allowed to bring in
cameras. Michael Angelo only painted the ceiling, by the way.

Taxmageddon coming? Answer could cost Americans $500 billion

As many Americans were scrambling to get this year's taxes done,
analysts were warning about a bigger tax day -- what some call a tax
Armageddon, or "Taxmageddon," to characterize its potential effect on
the U.S. economy.At the end of the year, some $500 billion in tax breaks expire all at
once, hitting American households with an average tax increase of
$3,800 dollars -- if Congress doesn't act.The potential increases include $165 billion more from taxpayers as a
result of expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts, which would push taxes
from a bottom rate of 10 percent and a top rate of 35 percent to a
bottom rate of 15 percent and a top rate of 39.6 percent."Taxmageddon is a $500 billion, one-year tax hike that hits the
economy on Jan. 1, 2013," Curtis Dubay of the Heritage Foundation said.It would cut the child tax credit by half, from $1,000 dollars a child to $500.The marriage penalty would return.The tax on dividends, which many seniors rely on, would soar from 15 percent to as high as 39.6 percent.A separate $124 billion cut in the payroll tax would end.And a temporary fix to the alternative minimum tax would be erased.
The tax originally was aimed at millionaires, but it could would hit
some 34 million taxpayers next year."Almost the entire tax code has been put on a year-to-year lease, and
in some cases, month-to-month lease, which is no way to run a tax
system," Scott Hodge of the Tax Foundation said.The expiring cuts would hit all income groups but those at low and middle incomes the hardest."Taxmageddon falls 70 percent on middle and low income families.
That's because 60 percent of the Bush tax cuts were for middle-

As
Americans tightened their belts to pay federal taxes on time, the Obama
administration is exploring what appears to be every way possible to
use U.S. taxpayer dollars to stimulate the economy – in Kenya.

According to U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor, the White House has increased the flow of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Kenya, the land of his father’s birth.“Kenyan businesses lately are increasingly becoming recipients of
U.S. government largesse, as the Obama Administration, among pursuing
other endeavors aims to expand ‘livestock-related economic
opportunities’ in that nation,” the watchdog newsletter wrote April 14.

Amid the “spike of activity” in Kenya is a U.S. government contract
committing to a five-year effort to “improve the inclusiveness and
competitiveness” of the livestock industry in Marsabit and Garissa
counties in Kenya.

“REAL-AG is intended to be a five-year activity which deepens USAID
investment in Marsabit and Garissa, Kenya,” the program pre-solicitation
read. “The procurement will improve the inclusiveness and
competitiveness of the livestock value chain in these two counties,
while furthering diverse livestock-related economic opportunities.”

Efforts to pass a bill that would allow the IRS to deny
travel rights to U.S. citizens who the feds merely claim owe $50,000 or
more in delinquent taxes represents a de facto move to revoke the
citizenship of Americans without due process and in complete violation
of the Constitution.

Thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a recently
passed Senate bill, the suitably Orwellian entitled ‘Moving Ahead for
Progress in the 21st Century Act’, includes a provision that allows the
federal government to revoke passports of Americans accused of owing
back taxes.

The legislation now moves to the Congress where, despite
a Republican majority, the IRS provision is expected to be retained in
the final version of the bill because it will raise an estimated $750
million dollars over ten years.

“There is no requirement that the tax payer be guilty of
or even charged with tax evasion, fraud, or any criminal offense — only
that the citizen is alleged to owe the IRS back taxes of $50,000 or
more,” reports the Daily Economist.

Empowering the IRS to deny fundamental rights on a whim is completely illegal and unconstitutional.

“There are also numerous Supreme Court precedents protecting these same rights,” writes Jack Swint.
“Furthermore, the law appears to violate Article I, Section 9,
paragraph 3 of the United States Constitution, which forbids “Bills of
Attainder”, which are laws providing for the punishment of an individual
without benefit of judicial process.”

“It takes away your right to enter or exit the country
based upon a non-judicial IRS determination that you owe taxes,”
Constitutional Attorney Angel Reyes told FOX Business.
“It’s a scary thought that our congressional representatives want to
give the IRS the power to detain US citizens over taxes, which could
very well be in dispute.”

What’s next? If the feds can bar you from leaving the
country merely by claiming you have committed some infraction without
having to provide any evidence, the prospect of Americans being abducted
and interned indefinitely under the National Defense Authorization Act
with a similar absence of due process is just around the corner.

Will citizens have their drivers license cancelled if
the state claims they are behind on their property taxes? How about the
government working with big banks to suspend credit cards if an
individual is accused of avoiding inheritance or capital gains tax? Will
similar punitive measures of punishment be enforced for Americans who
attempt to avoid mandatory government health care?IRS Implements Mark of the Beast Control System

Presumably because the provision was introduced by Harry
Reid, there is a noticeable absence of uproar from the left even though

Penguin bites Newt Gingrich

By Alexandra Petri

This is not the penguin responsible. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
(Kin Cheung - AP)
This happened!The Associated Press reports that on a visit to the St. Louis Zoo,
Newt Gingrich was bitten by a penguin: “During his visit to the popular
zoo in Forest Park, he was treated to a behind-the-scenes visit with
two Magellanic penguins. One of them nipped Gingrich on the finger.”Gingrich was apparently unharmed, requiring no more than a small Band-Aid. Andrew Lieffring, a Facebook commenter on the Politico story quipped, “The liberal bias of penguins is well documented. They are always wearing tuxedos like hollywood elites.”We are all relieved to know that no permanent damage befell Newt. But what about the penguin? There is nothing you can take to
inoculate you against accidentally ingesting a chunk of Newt. Most
recipes that require bits of Newt are deadly potions that result in the
delusion that you will be the next King of Scotland, until Birnam Wood
starts marching from place to place. Clearly, the penguin was in danger. Desperate to see how things were going, I hopped on a flight to St.
Louis. When I got to the penguin enclosure, it was clear that the worst
had happened. One female penguin was crying in a corner of the tank. She explained
to me, using signs, that her life mate had just deserted her for a
considerably younger female. “Where is he now?” I asked. She pointed a languid flipper towards the opposite end of the tank,
where a plump penguin in an ill-fitting suit was beaming and repeating
the words, “Fundamentally” and “moonbase” to a small crowd of listeners.
He seemed delighted that the media had just shown up, although he vocally expressed his disapproval.

When you read this you
have to remember that the Washington Post is a very liberal newspaper which has
always supported Pres. Obama.

Subject:
The Washington Post actually printed this about Obama....

Obama: The Affirmative Action President

by Matt Patterson

(columnist - Washington Post, New York
Post, San Francisco Examiner)

Years from now, historians may regard
the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon,
a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle
Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment
beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy,
direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most
consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining
Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite
unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community
organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative
achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote
"present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United
States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.
He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a
legislator.

And then there is the matter of his
troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades
served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist
who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a
future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man
elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the
incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall
Street Journal:

New post on Bare Naked Islam

Saudi Arabia bans ‘gays and tomboys’ from schools and universities

In its fight against the spread of what they call a 'phenomenon,' the Wahabist Muslim Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will no longer allow gays and tom-boys to attend government schools and universities.

Hey, at least they don't hang them. Or do they?

HOW CAN THEY TELL?

EMIRATES The
Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most
feared law enforcement authority in the oil-rich country, has been
asked to enforce the new orders, Sharq Arabic language daily said.

“Instructions
have been issued to all public schools and universities to ban the
entry of gays and tom boys and to intensify their efforts to fight this
phenomenon, which has been promoted by some websites,” it said.

The
paper did not make clear who issued those instructions but said gay and
tom boy students can go back to schools and universities if they prove
they have been corrected and have stopped such practices.

It
said high-level orders have been issued to the Commission to
immediately enforce the new rules and to step up efforts to combat this
phenomenon and other “unacceptable behavior” in public places.

Billionaire “philanthropist” George Soros expanded his U.S.-based
empire by using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009

Newly recently released tax documents, examined and analyzed by Tina Trent of sorosfiles.com,
reveal how billionaire

“philanthropist” George Soros expanded his
U.S.-based empire by using funds from the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the Obama stimulus. Soros and
Obama worked hand-in-glove through the stimulus, which has been called
the largest single partisan wealth transfer in American history.

The new report has been released by America’s Survival, Inc. (ASI), publisher of the Soros Files website, and posted under the title OBAMA STIMULUS DOLLARS FUNDED SOROS EMPIRE.

The release of the report coincides with an Internet advertising campaign onCanadaFreePress.com,
a global source of news and information, drawing attention to how the
transfers of federal funds to the Soros empire constitute a bigger
scandal than ACORN. In that scandal, the House and Senate voted to cut
off funds to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
(ACORN) after undercover videos showed ACORN officials giving advice on
how to hide financial misdeeds and tax crimes. “The new and currently
unfolding scandal of extravagant spending by the General Services
Administration, or GSA, is peanuts compared to how Soros tapped the
public till,” ASI President Cliff Kincaid said.

ION JANUARY 1, 2013,
THE US GOVERNMENT WILL BE REQUIRING EVERYONE TO HAVE DIRECT DEPOSIT FOR
SS CHECKs, PAYCHECKS, RETIREMENT CHECKS, PENSION CHECKS

WONDER WHY?

Subject: HR 4646

Be sure to read entire explanation

Watch
for this AFTER November elections; remember this BEFORE you VOTE, in
case you think Obama is looking out for your best interest.

A 1% tax on all bank transactions is what HR 4646 calls for.

Do you receive a paycheck, or a retirement check from Social Security or a pension fund and have it direct deposit??

Well guess what ... It looks as if Obama wants to tax it 1% !!!

This bill was put forth by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA).

YES, that is 1% tax on all bank transactions - HR 4646, every time it goes in and every time money goes out.

Ask your congressperson to vote NO.

FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

1%
tax on all bank transactions ~ HR 4646 - ANOTHER NEW OBAMA TAX SLIPPED
IN WHILE WE WERE ASLEEP. Checked this on snopes, it's true! Check it out
yourself ~ HR 4646.

President
Obama's finance team is recommending a one percent (1%) transaction fee
(TAX). Obama's plan is to sneak it in after the November elections to
keep it under the radar.

This
is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution - banks,
credit unions, savings and loans, etc. Any deposit you make, or even a
transfer within your own bank from one account to another, will have a
1% tax charged.

If your paycheck or your Social Security or whatever is direct deposit, it will get a 1% tax charged for the transaction.

If
your paycheck is $1000, then you will pay Obama $10 just for the
privilege of depositing your paycheck in your bank. Even if you hand
carry your paycheck or any check in to your bank for a deposit, 1% tax
will be charged.

You receive a $5,000 stock dividend from your broker, Obama takes $50 just to allow you to deposit that check in the bank.

If you take $1,000 cash to deposit at your bank, 1% tax will be charged.

Mind you, this is from the man who promised that, if you make under $250,000 per year, you will not see one penny of new tax.

Keep
your eyes and ears open, you will be amazed at what you learn about
this guy's under-the-table moves to increase the number of ways you are
taxed.

Oh,
and by the way, if you receive a refund from the IRS next year and you
have it direct deposited or you walk in to deposit that check, you
guessed it. You will pay a 1% charge of that money just for putting it
in your bank.

Remember, any money, cash, check or whatever, no matter where it came from, you will pay a 1% fee if you put it in the bank.

Some
will say, oh well, it's just 1%. Are you kidding me? It's a 1% tax
increase across the board. Remember, once the tax is there, they can
also raise it at will. And if anyone protests, they will just say,
"Oh,that's not really a tax, it's a user fee"!

Ann Barnhardt broke into the news with her understanding of how Wall Street was robbing us blind. Now she is traveling the country speaking truth. Her courage and honesty is amazing. If you don’t watch this short clip of her speaking, you cheat yourself of seeing a rising leader that deserves our support and admiration. Go Ann Go.

WSI:
Oh, well…I was told to…to…to overcome my pride. Pride is not to be a
part of this process anymore. Too close to…the…to the inevitable. But
I’m not there yet. And I do feel better. I know I don’t look better to
you…I can see it on your face there…but I really do feel better. I am
blessed to die an old man. So many of us….so many did not have
that………………..that blessing.
I do get tired easily though, so please be patient with me – you always
have been. I may…wander a bit. But don’t……………..there is no need
to-to…….to change…..to not express those moments as they are. Does that
make sense?

UM:
You don’t want me to edit the lapses? The times you may “wander”?
I’ve done that before for you – it’s no trouble. You don’t want me to
do that?

WSI:
That is correct. I cannot allow my pride to alter how I really speak
to you here. I don’t wish to sound any different…any…any stronger
than-than……how I really am. Pride….anger….selfishness….none of that is
to be allowed. My redemption cannot allow it….and there is much
I….there is much need for redemption in me. Perhaps I will overcome
this condition? (Shrugs) Perhaps – but I cannot chance it. Cannot
allow myself to be…overtaken by my own…pride. Do you understand my
meaning?

UM:
I do – and I don’t think it’s necessary we try and explain it to anyone
else. Anyone who has watched someone deal with what you are
facing…they’ll get it. The ones who don’t – they’ll understand someday
and I don’t really care about that understanding regardless. You just
talk, ok? If you get tired, we can take a break. If you wander, I’ll
try and focus you – does that sound alright?

WSI: Of course it is…and thank you for your patience.

You indicated…..you wanted to ask
questions? About….about some rather….conspiracies? Was that it?
Conspiracies? I do know of…of things. And perhaps…perhaps am ready to
share.

UM: Yeah
– part of it. Yes. But I don’t want to dictate what you want to talk
about. So if you have some things you want to discuss right now – you
go ahead and do that. If there’s time, I can ask my questions later.
This is your time more than it’s my time.

WSI: (Long pause)…………….Time.

Never enough………….All the money in this world……………..one cannot stop………………

I watched the-the……….the show. That program. Every Sunday I watch it.

UM: What program?

WSI: On the television. It was…every Sunday. In the morning. The…..the gentleman…his father….Sunday mornings. Don’t trust the others….

O’Keefe exposes More Incompetence, Loopholes, Fraud and Corruption in Voting Centers of DC

OIL
- You better be sitting down when you read
this
!!!!!! As
you may know, Cruz Construction started a
division in North Dakota just 6 months
ago. They
sent every Kenworth (9 trucks) they had in
Alaska to North Dakota and several
drivers. They
just bought two new Kenworth's to add to
that fleet; one being a Tri Drive tractor
and a new 65 ton lowboy to go with
it. They
also bought two new cranes (one crawler
& one rubber tired) for that
division. Dave
Cruz said they have moved more rigs in the
last 6 months in ND than Cruz
Construction moved in Alaska in the last 6
years. Williston
is like a gold rush town; they moved one
of our 40 man camps down there since there are
no rooms
available. Unemployment
in ND is the lowest in the nation at 3.4
percent last I
checked. See
anything in the national news about how
the oil industry is fueling North Dakota
's
economy? Here's
an astonishing read. Important and
verifiable
information: About
6 months ago, the writer was watching a
news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros.
was the guest. The
host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a
direct question and I would like a direct
answer; how much oil does the U.S. have in
the ground?" Forbes
did not miss a beat, he said, "more than all the
Middle East put
together." The
U. S.. Geological Service issued a report
in April 2008 that only scientists and oil men
knew was coming, but man was it
big. It
was a revised report (hadn't been updated
since 1995) on how much oil was in this area of
the western 2/3 of North Dakota, western South
Dakota, and extreme eastern
Montana.Check
THIS
out: The
Bakken is the largest domestic oil
discovery since Alaska 's Prudhoe Bay , and has
the potential to eliminate all American
dependence on foreign oil. The Energy
Information Administration (EIA)
estimates

A
lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they
imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to
themselves. Pause a moment, reflect. These events are actual events from history.. They really happened!!!

Do you remember? Gee...I didn't remember this...did you??? 1. In 1968, Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male extremist. 2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by Muslim male extremists. 3. In 1979, the US Embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim male extremists. 4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by Muslim male extremists. 5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut were blown up by Muslim male extremists. 6. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by Muslim male extremists. 7. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim male extremists. 8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by Muslim male extremists. 9. In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by Muslim male extremists. 10. In 1998, the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim male extremists. 11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take down the World Trade Centers and of the
remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was
diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by Muslim male extremists. 12. In 2002, the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against Muslim male extremists.13. In 2002, reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by--- you guessed it---Muslim male extremists.

No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?
So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics
intent on killing us,

airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people...

secret agents who are members
of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal
hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males alone lest they be guilty of profiling. Have the American People completely lost their Minds, or just their Power of Reason??? Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Allreds and other stupid attorneys along with Federal Justices
that want to thwart common sense, feel ashamed of themselves -- if they have any such sense.

As the writer of the award winning story 'Forrest Gump' so aptly put it, 'Stupid Is As Stupid Does'

Army
Generals will have the public believe that the Red Cross is a morale
booster for our troops. That load of bull is too heavy even for a
Blackhawk helicopter sling load. During my about three years with
combat troops downrange, I've never heard the slightest inkling of
"morale boost" from troops who see a Red Cross.

The Red Cross boosts enemy morale. It alerts the Taliban that they have caused casualties.

For
experienced American combat troops, the Red Cross symbol is associated
with the sights and smells of your friend being blown to pieces and his
shredded uniform draped high in the branches of a tree, or someone shot
through the eye socket. A Red Cross on a helicopter evokes memories of
dusty landings to pick up wounded, dying, or dead. Others will say that
helicopters with Red Crosses and no machine guns leave wounded on
battlefields due to ground fire. And this is sometimes true.

Recently,
there was a blood drive in a shopping mall. The organizers displayed
big Red Crosses, evoking memories of Iraq and Afghanistan. Yes, the
Army Generals pretend that troops cheer at the vision of the Red Cross,
when the Red Cross, like raw ground beef in the market, means something
else.

Watching
the Army drag the Red Cross into battle reminds us of how backwards the
Army mindset really is. We have gone through nearly a century of wars
while the Army continues to display the Red Cross, and the symbol still
draws enemy fire. How many more wars must we undergo before someone
says enough?

The
only time I've seen troops who practically cheered for medical
evacuation helicopters was in Sangin, Afghanistan, with British forces.
British Soldiers in Sangin were fighting well but taking terrible
casualties. The landing zones were hot. Air Force Pedros would come in
from Camp Bastion, miniguns on each side (they carry .50 caliber
machine guns these days), with pararescue medics hanging with their legs
out the doors and with their rifles in hand. They roared in no matter
what. The Air Force had no distinctive crosses on their helicopters,
and the British never mentioned the name "Pedro" without some level of
reverence. Pedro meant hospital. “Red Cross” was tantamount to “can't
land because the area was too dangerous.” Pedro meant miniguns. Red
Cross meant delay.

To
this day, the Red Cross symbol leads to unneeded delays and thus saps
the morale of our troops, while bolstering Taliban morale and
propaganda.

Some
Army officers say that mounting machine guns provides a false sense of
security on helicopters. Another fable. It doesn't even make sense.
This Army claim is so bizarre that I'm left without a response, so let's
keep moving.

Defenders of the Red Cross will say that Pedro also gets hit, and if anything, that armed Pedros get hit more frequently per capita than
unarmed Dustoffs wearing Red Crosses. That's probably true considering
that we send Pedro to the worst places, because Pedro has guns. There
is no doubt that on average, Pedro is sent to the most dangerous pick up zones because they have two .50 caliber machine guns on each bird.

Our
supposedly war-wise Generals say that we are implementing COIN, or
counterinsurgency, in Afghanistan. Why, one might ask, if we are trying
to win over Afghans with our COIN war, do we have helicopters wearing a
symbol of the Crusades?

Protest in Afghanistan, 2012. (Photo credit unknown)

The Red Crosses do these three things:

Red
Crosses alert the enemy that the helicopter is unarmed: If Army
Generals insist on sending unarmed helicopters into combat, it makes no
sense to telegraph that fact to the enemy. Army Generals will try to
change the subject by saying that adding machine guns adds weight, and
this is true. But if they insist on going unarmed, why then force our
MEDEVAC crews to alert the enemy? This makes zero sense. A General who
insists on alerting the enemy that our MEDEVACs are unarmed must think
that we are stupid. He's saying, "You are so dumb that I can tell you
this and you will actually believe me because I wear these stars.
That's how dumb you are. And we are winning the war. Trust me."

Red
Crosses alert the Taliban that they caused casualties: This is a
terrible and free gift to the enemy. First, the Taliban wound or kill
our people, and then our Army Generals insist on broadcasting this fact
to every village that the helicopters fly over. We might as well paper
the villages with leaflets saying, "That boom that you just heard
killed our guys. The Taliban got us! We thought that you'd like to
know. Friendly reminder: Every time that you see the Red Cross, the
Taliban succeeded again."

Red Crosses are an EVIL SYMBOL to many Afghans: This is the “Counterinsurgency” that our Generals brag about.

The
Crosses are to Pashtun Muslims as swastikas are to Jews. (For that
matter, Israeli Jews and Muslims also don't want Red Cross crusaders
flying overhead.) I have written about this before, and high-ranking
officers have said my reports are incorrect. They say that Afghans are
not bothered by the Red Cross. Let’s examine this:

From a book called Passing it On: Fighting the Pushtun on Afghanistan's Frontier. This book was written by the British General Sir Andrew Skeen, and published in 1932.

General Sir Skeen writes of the Red Cross:

And
so at least one General agrees, and he agreed back in 1932. In places
like Afghanistan, the difference between 1932 and today can be minimal.
But just in case our Generals come back and say that I am wrong again,
please note this photograph of a poster of evil symbols, tacked up on a
wall in a village in Eastern Afghanistan:

The
issue transcends this war. During World War I, the Germans sank
plainly marked hospital ships, sending them to the bottom of the sea.
During World War II, the Japanese, and the Germans (largely Christians
themselves), were shooting at Red Crosses. The Koreans and the Viet
Cong/NVA did the same. Those wars were not about religion.

Red Crosses did not ward off enemy fire during World War I

During
the Vietnam War, a war that has some similarities to Afghanistan today,
Red Crosses alerted the Viet Cong that they’d whacked some Americans,
as opposed to unmarked helicopters that might have been landing to
deliver more troops or ammo.

Helicopters
with Red Crosses landing on hot pick up zones tell the Taliban with
certainty that they are not reinforcing or resupplying, but are
extracting dead or wounded. (Helicopters wearing Red Crosses are not
permitted to deliver war supplies or combat troops. They also are not
permitted to fly over the enemy, but we ignore that rule, which causes
one to wonder if we also ignore the rules prohibiting resupply and
reinforcement.)

The Red Cross:

Alerts the enemy that helicopters are unarmed.

Alerts the enemy that they have caused casualties.

Alerts the enemy that the helicopter is not carrying supplies or reinforcements.

Is an "evil" symbol in Afghanistan.

Reminds our forces of losses. (Every time you see MEDEVACs fly you think someone got hit.)

Boosts enemy morale.

Provides Taliban with propaganda tool. (“The Crusaders are back.”)

Provides Taliban with second propaganda. (“We killed Crusaders.”)

Is
a glaring symbol of top leadership incompetence, hidebound bureaucratic
parochialism, and the willingness of ranking officers to deceive the
public and elected representatives while peddling BS to our own troops.

Doesn't work.

Some
will blame the President for the Red Cross debacle, but if we are to
blame this President, we'll have to reach back and blame Presidents who
have been buried for decades. If we are to blame something on
Presidents, let’s at least stick to what they are responsible for, and
to what they should reasonably be expected to know about.

The
Dustoff issue is huge if you are a wounded trooper, or a Taliban
commander who wants to know if he caused casualties, or who wants free
morale boosters and propaganda tools. But on the national scale, the
deaths caused by helicopters wearing Red Crosses are mere angel dust,
and will escape a President’s attention if we don’t bring it up, and
point out how poorly the Army is managing its affairs, and how badly the
Army is serving our troops, our sons and daughters. The Red Cross
symbol is not the disease, but a symptom of something fundamental.

The Red Cross has become a symbol of intergenerational Army inanity, and our failure in Afghanistan.

JEANNINE BARRY, COUNTRY FROM THE UK ON FREE ZONE MEDIA

LET'S HAVE A LITTLE ROCK AND ROLL ?
TURN THE VOLUME ALL THE WAY UP ! ENJOY !

MUSIC - VICTOR BAILEY - JAZZ - STORY COMING ABOUT THIS MAN - EDITOR HERE, AND THE PASS,

VICTORY BAILEY JR IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS JAZZ BASSIST IN THE WORLD !
I KNEW HIM WHEN HE WOULD COME TO MY STUDIO WITH HIS FATHER MORRIS BAILEY, PRODUCER OF R&B MUSIC IN THE PHILLY AREA, VICTOR,YOU WOULD SIT OFF TO THE SIDE OR IN THE CORNER AND WATCH - HE WAS LEARNING - BOY, WAS HE LEARNING ! HE NAILED IT! I AM PROUD TO CONSIDER HIM A FRIEND TODAY ! I PRESENT TO YOU: VICTOR BAILEY - HE IS NOW A PROFESSOR OF MUSIC AT THE BERKLEE COLLAGE OF MUSIC IN BOSTON, MASS.

MUSIC AND WORDS

YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT THE FREE ZONE

Merle Haggard Song "I THINK I'LL JUST STAY HERE AND DRINK"

AFTER WATCHING THE NIGHTLY NEWS

CONUNTRY MUSIC: THE BEST OF CONWAY TWITTY

WH NOTE: I WAS RUNNING A THEATER IN BRANSON MISSOURI WHEN CONWAY DIED IN A HOSPITAL IN SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI;

NINA WILEY WRITER - EDITOR AND JET PILOT.

Dr. Bill Smith (The Ozark Guru)

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